Michael Newton made an attempt to make it work with soul families and multiple incarnations.
Personally, if the mind is not reincarnated, and most of the memory gets left behind, then what marks the karmic stream you inherit as “yours”? It could be just a random bundle of karma…
It seems to me that the mind is continually seducing the awareness into paying attention to it. It says, here is something you could do. Or, here is an interesting thought. Or, here is something that is worrisome. Playing on restlessness, curiosity, a yearning for safety.
But this means that the stream of thoughts that is the mind is continually center stage in awareness. You may find yourself for long moments paying no attention to your surroundings while you are completely focussed on the mind. It’s almost like a blackout if the focus is intense.
That goes against the practice of balancing the senses, and having roughly equal amounts of awareness on the five senses and the awareness-of-mind. This is a good beginning practice for reducing the importance of mind in your life.
Certainly it seems like your mind knows you well, knows what makes you ‘tick’. It has grown in conjunction with your being. Yet its strategies for seducing awareness are relatively simple, it just tickles you with the hint of something, you bite, and voila, a thought.
You could learn to look at new thoughts when they are arriving, before you are examining them and they begin to generate new thoughts. Each new thought is another element in the seduction, jumping up and saying, look at me, look at me…
The awareness is quick, flicking from point to point, but the idea of looking at the gaps between thoughts involves teaching the awareness to slow down, to stay with thoughts when a new thought introduces itself and not immediately jump to engage with it.
America just needs a Mom to be like, “ A new war? You never even finished the last two. You got new war money? ..we have plenty of war at home.” 🤣💯